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- Born:
- July 13, 1729, Saint-Cannat, France
- Died:
- Dec. 8, 1788, Paris (aged 59)
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Pierre André de Suffren de Saint-Tropez
French admiral
Pierre AndrĂ© de Suffren de Saint-Tropez (born July 13, 1729, Saint-Cannat, Franceâdied Dec. 8, 1788, Paris) was a French admiral, noted for his daring tactics, who fought the British in Indian waters during the American Revolutionary War.
A Knight of Malta, Suffren de Saint-Tropez served under Admiral C.H. dâEstaing in America and was sent to assist French military operations in India in 1781. In a remarkable series of engagements with British Admiral Sir Edward Hughes off the coasts of India and Ceylon in 1782â83, he disregarded textbook rules and tried, with varying success, to teach his captains to isolate groups of enemy vessels and thus destroy a squadron piecemeal.
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